From Reggie to Dessie: The colleagues are desperate to impress Johnson, B. But he doesn’t know who most of them are.

So I took myself off to Lords with Crispin Blunt, Lord Haselhurst, and Tracey Crouch for some serious cricket.

Rory Stewart: Of course there’s a climate emergency. Here’s a wide-ranging Conservative programme to tackle it.

Saving our planet will require a very eclectic bunch of policies. The task calls for moral courage and grinding common-sense.

Nicholas Daniels: British aid should primarily be about investments, not handouts

Ultimately, it is economic growth not traditional aid which will support the growing populations of the developing world.

George Freeman: There was much to cheer in the Budget. But now we need an inspiring programme for growth.

At the moment, we are treading water and appear to be relying on popular support for Brexit, and the threat of Corbyn, to keep us in office.

Iain Dale: May understands the importance of trade with Africa, even if the usual suspects sneer at the idea

Plus: Why Leave.eu supporters are more in step with Conservative policy than Soubry; and: shaking things up on the airwaves.

Liam Fox: We must seize our exporting future in a changing world

Our new Export Strategy, which I am launching today, will put in place the tools that businesses have told us they need to help them on their journey.

Andrew Green: Staffing the NHS properly requires more training – not endless immigration

We already have one of the highest proportions of foreign-trained doctors in Europe – 29 per cent compared to less than 10 per cent for France and Germany.

Nicholas Daniels: Investment should play a much greater role in British overseas aid strategy

Supporting businesses and innovators can generate scalable, sustainable returns whilst bypassing corrupt middle-men and avoiding white elephant projects.

In Twitter politics, truth is simultaneously the highest prize and the first casualty

Remarkably, sometimes these inconsistent trends both exist within the same tweet – as with a recent viral clip accusing a peer of telling lies when he was in fact correct.

Alex Morton: It’s time to turn the Department for International Development into a Department for Humanitarian Relief

At a time when austerity continues, we need to be explain that we are not wasting taxpayers’ money on a grand delusion that we can create prosperity.

Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic

Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.

Nicholas Daniels: I’ve seen African dictators wreck their countries. Corbyn must be stopped from doing the same to Britain.

I was drawn to work here by the values which I believe can help a struggling economy become more productive: autonomy, hard work, and enterprise.

Stephen Hammond: How to solve the Brexit access-versus-control dilemma

They propose a bespoke agreement that would permit mutual market access, with a Solvency II equivalence outcome built into it.

Mugabe did no good that better men could not have done by better means

The end of Rhodesia did not need to herald mass murder, economic collapse, and a nosedive in life expectancy.

Let that lion roar: Johnson’s speech in full

“A society that does not judge you for where you come from or your background or how you live your life provided you do no harm to others that is the syncretic genius of our country.”